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...Danzig, famed Free City, is supposed to be "autonomous" under the "protection" of the League of Nations. About the time Japan began flouting the League (TIME, Feb. 8) Poland moved quietly to get a man of her choice, Dr. Casimir Pappee, appointed High Commissioner of Danzig. Last week he took office, startled the Free City by this abrupt, Japanesque pronouncement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE: Again Flouted | 4/4/1932 | See Source »

...Danzig's union with Poland is not temporary and it cannot be given up by one party. Danzig can only exist and grow as a Polish port. The Free City was created to serve that purpose and must be governed so as to fulfill the obligations imposed upon it by the Treaty of Versailles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE: Again Flouted | 4/4/1932 | See Source »

...whistle last week, French and U. S. bankers might sympathize, might aid * but Greeks, Turks, Brazilians and such put John Bull's pound pudding to the proof. Greece, which has pegged her drachma to the British pound for years, switched last week, pegged it to the dollar. Small Danzig did likewise with her gulden. Great Brazil, whose 20 United States are larger than the 48 U. S. states, began at once to collect certain taxes on a dollar basis, despite the fact that by law of 1926 Brazil's milreis is pegged to the British pound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Pound, Dollar & Franc | 10/5/1931 | See Source »

Germany was not the only country affected by her economic plight last week. All banks closed in Hungary for three days. In Vienna the great Mercurbank, largely owned by Berlin's closed Danat, shut its doors and begged for a six-month moratorium. Other banks suspended in Danzig and in Riga. The fire was coming dangerously close to France's allies in Central Europe: Poland, Jugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, who must be saved to preserve French military supremacy. Had France overstepped the mark by demanding, as the price of a further loan, political concessions from Germany which no German Cabinet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Underlining, Creating | 7/27/1931 | See Source »

Germany must agree to observe a "political moratorium" for the next ten years; i. e.. there must be no more agitation for revision of the Treaty of Versailles, return of the Danzig corridor, return of German colonies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Underlining, Creating | 7/27/1931 | See Source »

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